While some claim this step would legitimate and facilitate redress of the danger posed by Saddam's weapons of mass destruction -- as one put it "The road to Baghdad is through New York" -- the reality is very different: The road to the Security Council is a dead end, and is favored by many precisely for that reason.
Overall, though, on the high road to Baghdad, so far so good.
The main road leading to Baghdad's Abu Hanifa mosque, an important place of worship for Sunnis, was also blocked.
Two more parked car bombs went off in a parking lot on the road that leads to Baghdad International Airport and killed three people, including a bodyguard of a Shiite lawmaker whose convoy was passing by.
One Blackwater operative told a reporter on a flight home from the Middle East that he had served as a bodyguard, escorting American personnel along the extremely dangerous road from Baghdad's airport to the fortified Green Zone downtown.
The first time I went to Baghdad, I could travel by road from the airport to the town...
Soldiers also cut road access from Baghdad and the northern cities of Salahuddin and Mosul to Kirkuk on Tuesday.
Shortly after Baghdad fell to coalition forces in April 2003, Blair convinced Bush to accept the road map plan for Palestinian statehood.
Zarqawi's own people led coalition and Iraqi forces to his safehouse, tucked away on a deserted road outside the town of Baquoba, northeast of Baghdad.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi Governing Council president warned Thursday that the road to Iraqi sovereignty could be delayed by trying to have direct elections for a transitional national assembly.
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